"[Abel's] story is a tragic one, but leaving it untold would be a
greater tragedy. Native American southerners shared the experience
of the Civil War with other Americans, and their involvement in
that upheaval had as profound an effect on their subsequent
history. Abel's was the first serious telling of that
story."--Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green.
The secession of southern states in the winter and spring of
1861-62 brought about a crisis for the Five Civilzed Tribes living
in present-day Oklahoma, or Indian Territory. Forced out of the
South thirty years earlier and relocated there, the Cherokees,
Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles had maintained a
relationship with the United States through treaties and resident
agents. Now the civil war that threatened the Union also called
into question its relationship with the southern Indians, an
influential minority of whom owned black slaves. In this volume,
originally published in 1915 as the first of a trilogy on
slaveholding Indians, Annie Heloise Abel explores the diplomatic
manuevers of the Confederacy to secure alliances with these five
Indian nations.
The negotiations were an important chapter in American diplomatic
history, as Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green, professors of
history at Dartmouth College, point out in their introduction to
this Bison Book. They profile the English-born, Kansas-educated
Annie Heloise Abel (1873-1947), a distinguished historical editor
and writer whose works include "The American Indian in the Civil
War, 1862-1865," also a Bison Book.
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